Yi Jing, Oracle of the Moon

  The left part is a clod of earth or maybe an earth altar. Meanings: earth, native, indigenous, unsophisticated. The right part is a picture of a lightning bolt.
The earth is the home of spirits and energies. Earthquakes come out of the earth (and back then it was thought lightning as well). According to others the right part is an image of two hands which stretch something: 'stretch out'.

  The 'Great Image' says: The basic disposition of Kun is female. The noble one carries everything with great generosity.

  Kūn is the contrast of hex.1, which is 'idea', abstract. Kūn is about practical reality, it means you should receive and nurture, or it can mean you will be received and nurtured. It is not a time to impose your will, but to accept and yield. Kun is dark and caring, fertile and wide. Its animal is the mare.
  The negative side of Kūn can make you passive or a victim of emotions, circumstances or other people's plans.

  Story:
  The earth lies motionless, time after time. Nothing moves, nothing lives. But deep in her darkness something is waiting. Patient, or asleep. Then the energy and the vibrations of thunderstorms touch her, and suddenly she is all over vibrant with life. Lightning, thunder, rain, they come and go suddenly, but a whole year of luxuriant growth has started.
   Day after day more life, but the earth herself did not change. She is eternal dark, quiet and patient.